it would be a lot more humble and realistic to just say that the field of philosophy, as he has been exposed to it, is not useful for his purposes. I have no disagreement, even as someone deeply interested in philosophy, that this might be true.
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This whole discussion, as I’ve pointed out elebenty nine times already, is of the form “X is *really* a Y,” which is pointless in nebulous cases (and I am a nebulous case of a philosopher at the very best). There is no fact of the matter.
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I consider what I’m doing “self-help for nerds.” Much less fancy than philosophy!https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1258123725309788160?s=20 …
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Since I may have come off rather antagonistically, just to be clear, I def don’t claim you ignore philosophers or anything, so much as seen to make a rather strange philosophy / non-philosophy distinction, oddly claim that all philosophy is bunk despite using at least some of it
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I will read the part you linked more in depth, will be interested to hear what you say about the philosophers you may have been inspired by or found helpful, thanks for sharing
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Chuckled with this: “Nagarjuna was severely confused, but he was so extremely holy that you aren’t allowed to contradict him.”
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